Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...floor: "I don't see that any of the countries that have accepted our guidelines would feel obligated to hold on to them now." The vote to help India would also undercut the Administration's campaign to persuade other exporters of nuclear wherewithal, such as France, Switzerland and West Germany, not to sell materials that might be used for weaponry...
...Robert B. Semple. Therefore, said the maestro with characteristic bravado, I quit. Under Dorati, who arrived three years ago, the D.S.O. has become one of the crown jewels of the struggling "Detroit renaissance." So Semple acted fast. In a six-way conference call with Dorati at his home in Switzerland, board members urged the maestro to come back, at least for this season. Pleased with the furor he had created, Dorati agreed: "The city had to wake up and I sounded the alarm clock." He plans to do more than that. Next April 9, his 75th birthday, Dorati will donate...
DIED. Otto Frank, 91, father of Anne Frank and sole survivor of the family whose two-year hideout from the Nazis in a Dutch attic during World War II was so poignantly recorded in his daughter's world-famous diary; in Basel, Switzerland. Only Frank survived the family's concentration camp imprisonment. In later years he founded the Anne Frank Foundation, which reconstructed the family's hideaway as a museum and converted the rest of the building into an international youth center...
Oljan Repic Muttenz, Switzerland...
...arrival in Switzerland early Friday morning, Queen was taken from the plane on a stretcher and driven to a Zurich hospital, where he was examined by a group of Swiss doctors as well as a U.S. State Department psychiatrist. The next day Queen and his parents were put aboard a U.S. Air Force jet and flown to the U.S. military hospital at Wiesbaden, West Germany, where the U.S. has set up special medical facilities to care for any of the hostages who may be released. At Wiesbaden a team of doctors were waiting to give Queen a battery of tests...